Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy.EasyOf courseyou paint flowers and girls and sunsets things that everybody understands.I never met him.WhoEverybody.Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational paintingI am.Pardon meI am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational.Not all painting.No housepainting is representational.And what does a housepainter representTen dollars an hour.In other words, you dont want to be seriousIt takes two to be serious.
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